Nahed Al Laham

TL;DR: Differences in the transcriptome of a clinical S. aureus strain with a normal phenotype to that of its isogenic mutant with a stable small-colony-variant (SCV) phenotype may be responsible for the SCV phenotype and its association with chronic and persistent infections.

TL;DR: The complete nucleotide sequence of a novel blaKPC-3-harboring IncI2 plasmid, pBK15692,isolated from a multidrug-resistant K. pneumoniae ST258 strain isolated from a New Jersey hospital in 2005 is reported.

TL;DR: The high rate of nasal MRSA carriage among healthcare workers found in this study is alarming and highlights the need for adjusted infection control measures to prevent MRSA transmission from HCWs to the vulnerable patient.

TL;DR: FTIR spectroscopy allowed a rapid and reproducible tool for the examination of different subpopulations of S. aureus on solid and in broth media for diagnostic and research purposes and offers for the first time a noninvasive approach to investigate dynamic processes of reversion of SCVs to the normal phenotype and vice versa.

TL;DR: Molecular typing of clinical isolates from Gaza hospitals revealed unusually high prevalence of TSST-1 genes among CC 22 MRSA, which is noteworthy given a recent community study describing widespread carriage of a CC22 MRSA clone known as the ‘Gaza strain’.